Quotes About Acting

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

I never could act, Edna. And I detest Hamlet. Have you ever seen a production of Hamlet that didn't make you want to go home and put your head in the oven? I haven't. Oh, I thought our Hamlet was quite nice, said Edna. Because it was abridged, said Peg. Which is the only thing Shakespear should ever be.

Independence of vision is a good thing," Dorrin said. "So is thinking. But speaking and acting well require reflection—consideration.

People of that sort seldom fall ill; they are too busy pretending to be ill.

I wouldn't treat a romantic scene any differently than any other scene. I would really say the biggest preparation was chewing gum and breath mints! For a kissing scene, it's all about the breath mints!

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

This was a Method Acting scene class on somatic mushrooms plus Marx, or something." -Reverend Billy Talen

Maybe it's a cultural thing, being Korean, but my first reflex has always been to exude humility - but it doesn't help you in acting. For acting, humility isn't the best thing. It'll weaken your work.

My emotions are usually my weakness, but they are my strength while acting.

Insecurity, commonly regarded as a weakness in normal people, is the basic tool of the actor's trade.

As for my looks, if I didn't look the way I do, I would probably be one of those many faces doing a romcom, which I detest. The way I look has somewhere defined the characters I played. My weakness has become my strength.

My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.

If I was continuously and completely doing films, exploring the medium and had the opportunity to do different characters, I probably would have known a little more about my strength, weakness, what I love doing, my forte - you learn this with experience. I didn't have enough of that.

When you have to play a character that seems to be a relatively decent person and seems to be like yourself, I think the trick in that kind of character, so that you don't become a cliche, is to find where their weaknesses are.

Acting is an opportunity for me to try to explore and examine and expose humanity's weaknesses that are intrinsic to our nature as humans and learn from them; thereby, it's like a sociological expose.

Anybody can act. Correction. Anybody can act if they know their own weaknesses.

The hardest thing is for me to let the work go and let myself just live. Every actor is different; they each have their own strengths and weaknesses; trust and ease are mine.

I'm just so glad that I started acting when I did because I had this wealth of life experience. I don't know if I'd have been able to handle it had I gone out to L.A. at 22.

I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen.

Basically, they had asked me if I would shave my head or wear a bald cap. I said look, if you are doing a series for five years I would want to shave my hair because I would go bald with all the gum and glue from the bald cap.

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.

A lot of people have told me, 'You're not this and so can't play that,' and I can't tell you the amount of times I've been told I'm not sexy. I just go: 'I'm a lot of things. Just because I don't wear my sexiness overtly doesn't mean that I can't become that girl for a role.